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Fashion
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Subject searches:
Fashion designers
Fashion - history
Clothing and dress - history
(add country and century if looking for a particular country time period i.e. Fashion - History - 20th century)
Magazines & Periodicals
For fashion magazines search on the subject Fashion - Periodicals and Clothing and dress - Periodicals. Vogue is the most well known fashion magazine and we have Vogue U.K., Vogue Australia, Vogue Paris, and L'Uomo Vogue (men). New Zealand's major fashion magazines include New Zealand Fashion quarterly and the Paula Ryan Simply You style guide.
Photos Michael Ng/Air New Zealand Fashion Week.
- Corsets: dressmaking meets engineering
- An interview with local corset maker Jo Drysdall
- Costume and Fashion
- Heritage photographs and illustrations from the Christchurch City Libraries collection
- Kiwi fashion designers making their mark
- New Zealand designers making waves on the international fashion scene
- Wearable Arts, Costume & Fashion Design
- Searching for information about designing and making clothes, costumes and wearable arts
Fashion Weeks
New Zealand
- ID Dunedin Fashion Week
- 26 February - 1 March 2008
- Air New Zealand Fashion Week
- 16 - 21 September 2008
- Canterbury Fashion Week
- 8 - 17 November 2007
International
- Australian Fashion Week
- Spring/Summer in April (Sydney) & Autumn/Winter in September (Melbourne)
- London Fashion Week
- February (Spring) and September (Autumn)
- New York Fashion Week
- February (Spring) and September (Autumn)
- Paris Fashion Week
- Haute Couture January (Spring-Summer), July (Autumn-Winter)
Ready to Wear (Pret a Porter) October (Spring-Summer), February - March (Autumn-Winter)
Men's Fashion January (Fall-Winter), July (Spring-Summer) - Fashion Weeks
- Wikipedia entry describes fashion weeks and lists the famous fashion weeks that usually take place twice a year
Fashion Links
- Fashion
- Fashion web sites listed in our Internet Gateway
- Designers and Labels
- List of New Zealand designers and fashion labels
- Fashion @ Pulse
- Fashion designers, modelling and news from our teen site Pulse
- Christchurch Fashion Designers
- Listing of local designers from localeye, the online guide to Christchurch and Canterbury
- Clothing and Accessories
- Listing of fashion retailers from localeye
Fashion News
- Magazines and fashion news
- Fashion magazines and news. Listing from our Internet Gateway
- Times Online Fashion
- Fashion and style articles from The Times and The Sunday Times
New Zealand
- New Zealand Herald Fashion and Beauty
- The Herald's Fashion section includes local and international news, and interviews with fashion identities
- Runway Reporter
- "The online home of New Zealand fashion". Local and international fashion information
- FashioNZ
- New Zealand online fashion directory and news
- Thread
- A fashion, style, culture ezine
Studying Fashion
- Sewing and dress making
- Listing on CINCH of sewing classes and courses
- Fashion Technology and Design
- Courses at CPIT, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology
- Wearable Arts, Costume & Fashion Design
- Searching for information about designing and making clothes, costumes and wearable arts
